Such cards were meant to shock, offend, upset their recipients. Not surprisingly, as with real Valentine’s Day cards, senders ...
The centuries-old craft historically served as a form of visual language and cultural identity, with specific patterns and ...
Ahh, Valentine’s Day: the perfect moment to tell your sweetheart how much you love them with a thoughtful card.
Early Valentine’s Day celebrations, dating as far back as the 17th century, were only loosely associated with love and often revolved around a lottery, said Sally Holloway, a cultural historian at the ...
History teaches us that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when standing in solidarity with those who suffer, writes.
When my father died, I inherited hundreds of transcripts from interviews he conducted with interracial couples in Chicago. He began his project in 1937, as a 21-year-old graduate student, and ...
A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and ...
A spate of acquisitions announced this week includes works by famed outsider artist William Hawkins and early 20th-century ...
The portraits of this 18th-century British painter have been collected for the first time in “Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture,” an exhibition opening at the Frick Collection in New York .
Set mostly in the 18th century and written during the Victorian era (1837-1901), the book is an intergenerational saga of ...
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science highlights the vital role women and girls play in advancing science and ...